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All around us are signs of crisis. UnHerd’s Flo Read and philosopher and cognitive scientist John Vervaeke sat down at the UnHerd Club to diagnose the alienation and anxiety that pervades our contemporary culture. Is a “meaning crisis” at the root of all the other crises we face – environmental, political, spiritual?

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// TIMECODES //

00:00 00:45 Introduction
00:45 05:45 Understanding the West’s meaning crisis
05:45 08:22 By setting aside religious ‘delusions’, have we become more deluded in other ways?
08:22 13:02 What do ‘realness’, ‘meaning’ and ‘mattering’ mean?
13:02 18:45 Are we at the peak of the meaning crisis?
18:45 28:45 Artificial intelligence and the meaning crisis
28:45 36:00 Have we made identity groups, social concepts and science, sacred?
36:00 40:40 How do we recover the true meaning of the sacred?
40:40 53:20 Losing the notion of soul, and horror as epiphany
53:20 01:00:05 Have we lost the sense of the sacred because we’ve lost the notion of the sacred place?
01:00:05 01:04:30 We’re still performing rituals, even if we don’t realise it
01:04:30 01:18:54 Debunking the mental potential myth, and the role of art in the idea of the sacred
01:18:54 01:19:17 Concluding thoughts


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